Lynching of Aaron and Anthony (Arkansas, 1856)
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Lynching of Aaron and Anthony (Arkansas, 1856)
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Aaron, Anthony, and Randall were three enslaved Black men who died of racial terror. Aaron and Anthony were lynched in 1856 in Washington County, Arkansas, after being accused of a murder and released by the court, one because he was proven and the other for lack of evidence. Randall was hanged for that crime. An oral history recounts that the white man who had been killed, the enslaver James Boone, had sexually assaulted a Black woman, who killed him in self-defense, and that the three men were
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Lynching of a two Black men in Arkansas, and hanging of another, 1856
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2022-06-19T23:53:47Z
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